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'Two shot' on tanker

Thai police are hunting a tanker captain suspected of shooting dead two crew before escaping with cash.

Police said on Sunday that other seafarers on a ship named as Ocean 4 - two Thais and a Cambodian - claimed the master killed two colleagues and dumped their bodies into the sea, the Bangkok Post reported.

The crew added he then sailed the vessel to Trat after the alleged murders, and contacted a speed boat to pick him up.

The captain is also accused of taking THB 5m ($154,000) in cash from the tanker.

The Thai-registered vessel was transporting 300,000 litres of diesel from Malaysia to Songkhla.

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'Two shot' on tanker

Thai police are hunting a tanker captain suspected of shooting dead two crew before escaping with cash.

Police said on Sunday that other seafarers on a ship named as Ocean 4 - two Thais and a Cambodian - claimed the master killed two colleagues and dumped their bodies into the sea, the Bangkok Post reported.

The crew added he then sailed the vessel to Trat after the alleged murders, and contacted a speed boat to pick him up.

The captain is also accused of taking THB 5m ($154,000) in cash from the tanker.

The Thai-registered vessel was transporting 300,000 litres of diesel from Malaysia to Songkhla.